knolli wrote:Automated melon farm? How does that work? You need to crush the melons and prepare the dirt. There's no method I know that make the hoe work automatically.

Observe the melon page of the wiki, it's near the bottom.

Basically consists of sticky pistols wired up to push up the dirt blocks the melons are on, and the melons will pop. Then you go till all the newly empty dirt patches and wait for melons to grow again.